Timeline

1999 - 2000

Distinction, Foundation Studies in Art and Design, University of Ulster

2000 - 2003

First Class, BA (Hons) Fine Art (Sculpture), University of Northumbria

2002

Konturen, a 10-day international workshop, based in Bentlage, Germany

2003

Lisburn Arts Advisory Committee, Grants for Individual Artists

Short-listed for the Shrewsbury Sotheby's Prize & winner of the Peoples Choice Prize

Fine Art Fellowship, Northumbria University, School of Art

Parallel, commissioned for Art in the Market (Newcastle City Council)

The Coquet, a collaborative, community-linked project for County Life Houses

Leave, a temporary piece for Westonbirt Festival of the Garden 2004 (InSite Arts)

ACE Graduate Placement with Nexus, Art in Transport

Threshold, commissioned by Shrewsbury Advisory Service for Climate Change

Arts Council England, Grants for the Arts

Royal British Society of Sculptors, Annual Bursary Award

2004

Roy Noakes Award, selected by Royal British Society of Sculptors

Arts Council England, North East, Graduate Placement Scheme Bursary

2005

Sculpture at Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire

Out There, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich

Bolwick arts 3, a site-specific art residency at Bolwick Hall, Norfolk

A New Moon, large-scale light installation for Canterbury Council (InSite Arts)

Shift, a temporary installation for Tynemouth Station, Tyne and Wear (Nexus)

A New Moon, toured to Bristol Broadmeads (InSite Arts)

Rising Tide for Temporary Address, Blyth, Northumberland (Rednile Projects)

8 week 'Art and the Public Realm' residency at Persistence Works, Sheffield

Artist in Residence, Belfast Print Workshop, Northern Ireland

Premio Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, first prize of 10,000 Euro for 'Red or Dead'

Your Gallery @ The Guardian, voted into an exhibition of the top 10 artists on www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/yourgallery

2006

Awards, Bursaries and related achievements

Arts Council England, North East, Grants for the Arts

2007

COURVOISIER® The Future 500 rising stars - ranked top 10 Art & Design in The Observer

Jerwood Drawing Prize 2007 - shortlisted

Wooda Arts Award, Wooda Farm, Cornwall www.woodafarm.co.uk

Artist in Residence at Adventure Ecology (online)

Wooda Arts Award, February - March, Wooda Farm, Cornwall (see awards)

(Curently untitled) light-based work for Arc [Architecture Centre], Hull (RKL) *

WEEEBOTS, ecological collaborative commission for RKL consultants (RKL)

Vital Signs, Cardiff University Optometry Dept (Artworks Wales)

Plus commissions for private collections

Commissions for private collections

Re(a)d, HLC, Telford (Impact Arts)

2008

Arts Foundation Fellowship Awards 2008 - shortlisted

Untitled works designed in collaboration with Selfridge’s for their atriums over Christmas 2008, in collaboration with ROLLO Contemporary Art

Spooning, Sheffield Millenium Galleries temporary commission

2009

Konturen, a 10-day international workshop, based in Bentlage, Germany

2012

Olympic Energy Centre proposal for permanent installation

Collections

Fellowships and Residencies

Commissions

Commissioned Proposals (ongoing)

Light based work for Arc (Architecture Centre), Hull

Permanent commission for Queen Elizabeth Medical Centre

Installations and works on paper are in private collections in the UK, France, Switzerland, Italy and Australia, including Museum of Old and New Art, Tazmania, and the Sylvie Fleming Collection